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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu depicts the quickness with which some in India abandoned the ‘we do not need the validation of the West’ bandwagon when Indian cinema scored two significant wins at the 95th Academy Awards. Composer M.M. Keeravani’s Naatu Naatu from Telugu blockbuster RRR won the Oscar for Best Original Song, while The Elephant Whisperers — a documentary directed by Kartiki Gonsalves and produced by Guneet Monga — won the Oscar for Best Documentary Film.
Pencilashan | Twitter @pencilashan
Pencilashan | Twitter @pencilashan

Vishnu Madhav illustrates the hazards of getting lost in translation in an apparent reference to how some Malayali media outlets took Naatu Naatu composer Keeravani’s remarks that he grew up listening to the American duo, The Carpenters, too literally.

Sajith Kumar | Twitter @sajithkumar
Sajith Kumar | Twitter @sajithkumar

Alluding to The Elephant Whisperers bagging the Academy Award for Best Documentary Film, Sajith Kumar gives his take on how politicians in India want the economy — symbolised by an elephant — to ‘overact’ in order to shore up their electoral prospects.

R Prasad | Twitter @rprasad66
R Prasad | Twitter @rprasad66
Drawing on a line from The Communist Manifesto (‘A spectre is haunting Europe’), R. Prasad comments on the Kerala government reaching out to the New York Fire Department for advice on how to douse a fire that engulfed a waste treatment plant in Kochi’s Brahmapuram on 2 March.
E P Unny | Indian Express
E P Unny | Indian Express
E.P. Unny spotlights the central government’s affidavit opposing same-sex marriages in the backdrop of the tug of war between the executive and the judiciary over their respective interpretations of the Supreme Court’s Basic Structure doctrine.

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